Bush gives first online interview to Yahoo
Posted on May 13, 2008 - Filed Under Yahoo, Video, Politics, Online Journalism | Leave a Comment
US President George W. Bush will give his first online interview later today in a collaboration between political website The Politico and Yahoo News.
Bush will be questioned on camera by The Politico’s Mike Allen, who will go behind-the-scenes at the White House and ask questions on a ‘colorful mix of serious policy-related topics, and some […]
Spleak apps deliver politics and sport news to social networks
Posted on May 8, 2008 - Filed Under widgets, social networks, Politics | Leave a Comment
Spleak Media Network has launched two new applications for delivering short-form sport and political news to social networks.
SportSpleak and VoteSpleak will serve up news headlines and gossip to users on social networks and instant messaging services, who can then comment on the updates to their friends.
Both will function along the same lines as CelebSpleak, which […]
OJR: tools for covering the US elections online
Posted on May 8, 2008 - Filed Under us, widgets, Editors' pick, multimedia experiments, Politics | Leave a Comment
The Washington-based Sunlight Foundation demonstrated a range of tools at last weeks NewsTools 2008 conference for covering the US election online.
The tools include: a widget that creates a pop-up link to a profile of a member of Congress when someone scrolls over their name on a webpage; and the ‘under-development’ Influence Explorer, which will offer ‘one-click disclosure’ of candidates’ political and campaign expenditure.
Read More..>> Full story...USAToday: Pentagon to launch foreign news websites
Posted on May 2, 2008 - Filed Under Editors' pick, USA, Politics | Leave a Comment
The Pentagon is to launch a network of foreign language news sites, including an Arabic site for Iraqis.
The sites will be staffed by local journalists in the countries reporting on US interests and carrying an anti-insurgency message.
Read More..>> Full story...Election 2.0: blogs, video and mobile streaming out in force for local election coverage
Posted on May 1, 2008 - Filed Under blogs, BBC, Politics, Online Journalism | Leave a Comment
The BBC’s coverage of today’s local elections will feature live blogging, with comments being expertly sifted by Newsnight and BBC News 24 presenter Emily Maitlis, assisted by leading political bloggers Iain Dale, Luke Akenhurst and Alix Mortimer.
The elections see 4000 seats up for grabs at 159 councils nationally, along with the London Mayoralty and the […]
WebProNews: Google and YouTube to host presidential debate
Posted on May 1, 2008 - Filed Under YouTube, google, Editors' pick, Politics | Leave a Comment
YouTube and Google will hold a live streamed forum with the American presidential candidates in September.
According to the companies the site’s will allow the users to engage in the debate in ‘important ways’.
Read More..>> Full story...Threats to Zimbabwe’s voters mapped by campaigners
Posted on April 29, 2008 - Filed Under Mapping, Politics | Leave a Comment
As part of their Zimbabwe Election Watch campaign, website Sowanele.com has mapped data of conditions affecting last month’s election (thanks to a tweet from Paul Bradshaw for the link).
Users can see where different factors or issues, including violence, state propaganda and press freedom, have had an impact on the election process.
The map below shows areas […]
BBC London uses YouTube for mayoral questions
Posted on April 22, 2008 - Filed Under YouTube, Video, BBC, Politics | Leave a Comment
Another news organisation getting in on the online act for next month’s London mayoral elections is the BBC with their BBC London election channel on YouTube.
London residents were asked to post video questions to candidates Boris Johnson, Brian Paddick and Ken Livingstone (not sure why the other parties aren’t included). A selection of these will […]
Nashua Telegraph video of Clinton aide arrest is in public interest, says online editor
Posted on April 18, 2008 - Filed Under USA, Digital video, Politics | Leave a Comment
The Nashua Telegraph’s decision to publish a 15-minute video of Sidney Blumenthal, aide to presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, while he was in police custody has been criticised by media commentator Roy Greenslade.
Writing on his blog, the former editor of The Daily Mirror said the video was ‘embarrassing, humiliating and overly intrusive’.
“To show the footage of […]
Round-up: London Mayor candidates get web-savvy
Posted on April 17, 2008 - Filed Under multimedia experiments, Politics | 3 Comments
So Brian Paddick started twittering and then the candidates lined up for an online grilling on Yoosk - but it hasn’t stopped there.
The Sun hosted an hour-long web chat with Boris Johnson yesterday, who answered questions from MySun readers. The answers to his questions are now on the Sun’s forums and have been edited into […]
